`The Sacraments: A Practical Guide' seeks to foster a recovery of worship in both Word
and Sacrament among Protestant Christians, especially those in Asia. Classical Protestant
understandings are seen as the basis of a contemporary liturgical piety centered on the
sacraments. This book aims to encourage Protestants to rediscover their traditional
sacramental theologies and practices in order that they might recover their distinctive
identities and revitalize their witness in the world. To know and understand a church's
sacramental faith and practice is to find the heart of its theology and faith.

Practical in nature and pastoral in its outlook, this handbook for sacramental practice
focuses on baptism and the Lord's Supper with much attention given to practical matters
such as the physical requirements and pastoral issues surrounding the two sacraments. This
book is intended for pastors and other church leaders who want to renew the worship life
of their churches by rediscovering the sacraments, particularly the sacramental theologies
and practices of their own ecclesial traditions.

Contents

Introduction

Abbreviations

1. The Meaning of Sacraments

2. Baptismal Meaning Among Protestants

3. Baptism as a Process of Initiation

4. Baptism and Time

5. Baptism and its Physical Requirements

6. Baptism and its Participants

7. The Baptismal Service

8. Baptism and its Renewal

9. Baptismal Issues

10. The Lord's Supper among the Protestant Reformers

11. The Lord's Supper and Time

12. The Lord's Supper and its Physical Requirements

13. The Lord's Supper and its Participants

14. The Lord's Supper Liturgy

15. The Lord's Supper and Justice

16. The Sacramentality of Other Rites

Index of Subjects

Index of Authors

Jeffrey A. Truscott is an ordained minister of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America, currently serving as Lecturer in Liturgy and Worship at
Trinity Theological College, Singapore, where he is also the Chaplain. Prior to that, he
was Associate Professor and Dean of the Chapel at Japan Lutheran College and Theological
Seminary in Tokyo. He holds degrees from two Lutheran seminaries in the United States and
a Ph.D. in liturgical studies from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.

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